Was It Really An Ambush?

LETTERS FROM READERS

February 24, 2000

I AM not particularly familiar with the appointment requirements to the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority board, but it is easy to surmise from the facts printed in the Sentinel that no one knows better than Orlando Mayor Glenda Hood when her appointment was to expire. She also presumedly knew the rules for appointing a successor.

Nevertheless, at the last available opportunity to do so, she apparently did not even bring it up to the City Council. Perhaps the mayor was planning to post another note the day before the deadline, calling for a special meeting, hoping no one would show up who would vote against her.

Furthermore, whatever Commissioner Bruce Gordy may have done, it did not obligate the taxpayers of Orlando to buy a train to the outlet mall. Donna Davis, ORLANDO